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Covid-19 stymies six years of progress in tackling poverty in Gauteng

Some 36% of Gauteng households live in poverty, according to a new survey, with poverty levels having shot up during the course of the pandemic

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
“Our results show that, of the major cities, Ekurhuleni (Municipality) is doing well and Johannesburg has marginally improved in many service areas,” said Dr Moore.
GAUTENG

Gauteng quality of life increases despite deepening inequality

The Quality of Life Survey measures both objective circumstances and subjective opinions of respondents

  • Jacques Coetzee
4 min read
In Eritrea, certain topics are known to be out of bounds for journalists. (Reuters/Leonhard Foeger)
APARTHEID

Gautengers move to shacks and gated estates

Shacks have increased by 204.7% and gated houses by 248.8%, showing a widening gap in the kinds of homes built in the country’s most populous province

  • Dennis Webster
  • Sisay Julius
5 min read